
Future at Issue
Pascal VERNUS(Author)
Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
228 pages
978-0-912532-21-9 (ISBN)
Description
This is a technical study of Middle Egyptian grammar aimed at enhancing our understanding of tense, mood and aspect; a difficult area of research because, as the author notes, 'we have no informants, since the discovered mummies have so far stubbornly refused to speak and are not expected to change their minds in the future'.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New Haven
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
557 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-912532-21-9 (9780912532219)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Pascal Vernus is a French Egyptologist and director of egyptian linguistics and philology at the Sorbonne, Paris.
Content
Preface Introduction Chapter 1 - The Main Future Constructions: Subject+r+Infinitive and Prospective Sdm.f Chapter 2 - Emphatic Constructions with Future Reference Chapter 3 - Future in Cleft Sentence Chapter 4 - Sdm-hr.f and hr-headed Constructions Chapter 5 - Sdm-k3.f and k3-headed Constructions Chapter 6 - The Message Auxiliary jh Chapter 7 - Future Reference in Negative Patterns Chapter 8 - The Construction Subject+m+Infinitive: From the Ingressive to the Unachieved Non-Extensive Chapter 9 - The Aspectual Opposition, Unachieved Extensive/Unachieved Non-Extensive Bibliography Indices